Hey Guys,

A quick note to apologize for the lack of replies in almost forever and the absolute silence as I tried to focus on other things.

I owe you an explanation really.

Last May I injured my knee playing soccer. As a dance teacher it's been a hard blow being told I wouldn't be able to dance without intensive and costly surgery. Well, costly if I want it done before mid-2013. Unfortunately before mid-2013 is my only option as dance is my income and I have very little of that.

Last year I had to skip the year because of an overseas holiday in May/June, so no 2011 income, and this year I had no choice to to pull out since I couldn't even walk in May and I'm unable to dance. By mid-July it seemed to be getting better, I was running, and then I slipped and injured myself again.

I have patello-fermoral instability resulting from stress on the kneecap and a collision during a soccer match. I require an intensive surgery called a TTO (where they re-align my knee) and an MPFL reconstruction (the MPFL is the ligament that holds your kneecap in place and stops it slipping all over the place). Until then, and after a year of intense physiotherapy, I will be unable to dance again.

If you know me you know that's a cruel blow, but even worse than that, as a choreographer, it's put me out of whack seemingly for a long time. It's no great secret I've been struggling with depression since the incident (I took up dance after years of dealign with shyness and anxiety issues) and found it hard to write anything at all, let alone anything to do with dance - which is just like putting a nail right through my hand.

I have started the sequel to Play It Your Way which now sits happily on my desktop waiting for love. It's been there for almost a year and a half, since I got back from America, but I won't post it if I can't promise it will get completed.

I want to thank everyone who followed my Step Up series, and hopefully this fic, Part 5 and the two other parts to the series that I have planned will get written. One day when I can dance again.

Until then wish me luck for my surgery. No date yet but just luck that whenever it happens it works and come 2014 I'll be able to get back to the kids, back to the dance, and back to what I love best - writing for these brilliant films. (How good was Step Up 4? Yes! I know!)

Take care of yourselves guys,

- Kate-Emma